Reply #60: Thanks for the hug. And yes, I know I can't change her. [View All]

[Ladyhawk]

I just slipped last night. I sometimes can't keep my mouth shut when there are other issues going on in my life. I was about half-sick and had some other pressures. My desire to have a "complete" relationship with my mother--which will never happen--overcame my good sense.

I had made a pact with myself to never bring up religion or politics with my mother, but I "fell off the wagon." That much was my fault, but there were contributing circumstances. I'm climbin' back on the wagon.

And concerning the depression: point taken. DU is too brutal a place for me to be hanging out right now if I'm in so weakened a condition as to break my own promises to myself. There isn't a hell of a lot I can do about anything right now. If civilization were to come to an end, I wouldn't be one of the survivors, anyway. I'm too besieged by physical and emotional maladies. I need to just relax and do what needs to be done to take care of myself.

So, I should probably sign off DU for awhile.